So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

You can't out-perform your self-image.